Meet John D. MacDonaldPosted March 19, 2025John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) was an American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and the beloved Travis McGee series. Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he honed his writing.... I Cannot Live Without Books
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The Prisoner's Throne: A Novel of Elfhame Volume 2 $20.99 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Stolen Heir. Audience: Young adult. An imprisoned Prince; a vengeful queen; and a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame. Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. When High King Cardan and High Queen Jude go to extremes to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak must decide whether to attempt to regain the trust of ... Read More
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A Cold White Sun (Constable Molly Smith Series, Book #6) $24.95 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 314 p. Constable Molly Smith Novels, 6. Audience: General/trade. It's the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers. Teachers, parents, and students are preparing to relax at home or head off on vacation. But for high school English teacher Cathy Lindsay, the week of relaxation doesn't work out as planned. She's gunned down by a sniper on a hiking trail, her ... Read More
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Screams & Whispers (Cape Islands Series, Book #6) $24.95 Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Cape Islands Novels. Audience: General/trade. Young Cape Cod public defender and commercial fisherman Michael Decastro ventures to Saigon with his father, a Vietnam War vet, to com to the aid of his long-lost client and love-interest Tuki Aparecio. The half-Vietnamese, half-African American diva is in a fight of her life with a mysterious dragon lady from Indochina's underworld. At stake is an antique ... Read More
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Deception by Gaslight (Gilded Gotham Series, Book #1) $26.99 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. A Gilded Gotham Mystery, 1. Audience: General/trade. As a chill sets in on New York City in the winter of 1888, a jewel thief dubbed the "Robin Hood of the Lower East Side" has been stealing from the city's wealthiest and giving to the poor. Genevieve Stewart--a young woman whose family is part of Mrs. Astor's famed Four Hundred but who has forged a life of her own as a reporter--decides to chase the story but gets more than she ... Read More
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$37.00 Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 864 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King--who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer--takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher ... Read More
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$55.00 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1200 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides--or are chosen ... Read More
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If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, the Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat $30.00 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. Readers adore Stephen King's novels, and his short stories are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Different Seasons, the knockout King collection featuring "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body" (made into the movies The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me), was published nearly forty years ago. The stories and their characters seem as ... Read More
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$29.00 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. Has the author of Carrie, The Shining, The Outsider, and Doctor Sleep ever conceived a story fo horrifying that he was, for a time, unwilling to finish writing it? Yes. Pet Sematary is that story. As King says in his introduction, "When I'm asked what I consider to be the most frightening book I've ever written, the answer I gives comes easily and with no hesitation: Pet Sematary." When Dr. Louis Creed ... Read More
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$30.00 Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Audience: General/trade. Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of ... Read More
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